D&D 5E Is a dwarf wizard still "playing against type"?

[Ricochet]

I've never subscribed to the notion of dwarves not liking magic. I've always seen them as more of a runecaster-type magic-user though. I like the way Warhammer has dwarven magic be intrinsic with runes and glyphs.

Drager & Dæmoner was also a good thing for dwarven wizardry, as Staffan mentioned.

I've always considered the dwarven druid a stranger phenomenon (even though I know a famous one co-stars in the RA Salvatore cleric series of novels)

My favorite 3e character was a dwarven illusionist. I'm playing a dwarf wizard again in Pathfinder Kingmaker, but this one has illusion as a prohibited school. I had to shake things up a little bit.

 

[SkidAce]

I think/feel that the dwarven runecasters as divine spellcasters....so using that view, still no dwarven wizards...but plenty of rune enchanted weapons and crafts, etc.

Considering there is historical/mythic precedent for runes to be divine anyhow...

 

[Minsc]

How many dwarves have appeared in D&D novels (and computer RPGs, and movies, and...)? How many dwarven wizards have appeared in D&D novels?

How many dwarves have appeared at D&D games? How many dwarven wizards?

AFAIK, Wizards never released the race/class breakdown from the 4e Character Builder (which would be the closest think to actual information). However, I'm not aware of seeing a massive influx of dwarven wizards - generally speaking, if you want to play a dwarf they're probably better suited to some other class; if you want to play a wizard you're probably better picking some other race.

So I think they've gone from "vanishingly rare" to "sometimes seen", but I don't think they could really be considered the norm.

how many D&D novels have there been that started after 3e came out?

I'm seriously asking: I have no idea.

 

[delericho]

how many D&D novels have there been that started after 3e came out?

I'm seriously asking: I have no idea.

I don't know, but quite a lot: there have been a few novels for Dragonlance, the entire Eberron range (20ish, I think), and the number of FR novels dwarfs both these together.

(I don't know if you want to count them, but there have also been 23 Pathfinder Tales novels to date, very few of which feature a dwarven character; IIRC none of those few dwarves was a wizard.)

 

[Minsc]

I remember one of those flavor short stories in Dragon magazine shortly after 3e hit the shelves, and it featured a dwarf wizard. Seemed pretty cool to me then!